Carolina Chocolate Drops

Starting off in 2005 playing black American folk music from the Piedmont foothills of the Carolinas and beyond, the Grammy Award-winning African-American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops have gone on to become one of the world’s leading roots groups, their rousing performances described by Rolling Stone as “dirt-floor dance electricity”.

Now a quartet, with founding members Rhiannon Giddens and Hubby Jenkins joined by cellist Malcolm Parsons and multi-instrumentalist Rowan Corbett, their impeccably researched and authentic versions of banjo and fiddle breakdowns come complete with jug-blowing, hog-calling shouts and vocals, rattling-bones percussion, flatfoot dancing and much more.

Carolina Chocolate Drops are a genre to in their own right and one of the best live music experiences you can witness.